Marc Chagall Quotes
If I weren't a Jew (in the sense in which I use the word) then I wouldn't be an artist, or at least not the one I am now.
Quotes to Explore
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I'm interested in sites that help people find information and filter what's available. The Internet is so big that no one can stay on top of everything.
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I think the new generation is much more demanding about respect for the environment than we have ever imagined.
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The function of the killer and watching him - whatever that says about the world in which we live - it was always more about that world than it was about the actual watching.
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I received a D.Sc. from the University of London in 1992.
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Just celebrate the life you had, not the life you could've had.
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Gods always behave like the people who make them.
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The measure of your quality as a public person, as a citizen, is the gap between what you do and what you say.
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America's freedom of religion, and freedom from religion, offers every wisdom tradition an opportunity to address our soul-deep needs: Christianity, Judaism, Islam, Buddhism, Hinduism, secular humanism, agnosticism and atheism among others.
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Very obsessed fans do ask actors to attend their weddings.
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I like to think of myself as classy.
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Gardeners are good at nurturing, and they have a great quality of patience, they're tender. They have to be persistent.
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The definition of 'morbid' is an unhealthy preoccupation with death. Unfortunately, there's no word to mean the perfectly healthy preoccupation with death, which is what I have.
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As David Cameron realizes, we do not have time for the tweaks and increments favored by institutions built to resist change.
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I have a company attitude about my work. I don't like to do just one thing; I like to do a lot of things.
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I always wanted so much glamour in my life, so I have always been obsessed with class, and from dating a few people who were from old money and a few from new money in my 20s, I just sort of became obsessed with this idea of clueless rich people.
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When I first filmed things, they were always slightly awkward.
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For me, French is so rich and so sacred that learning it is like learning a foreign language.
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Against what should fire be opened? Against the obstacles which may delay the march of infantry. The first obstacle is the enemy gun. It will be the first objective assigned to artillery masses.
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For the purposes of poetry a convincing impossibility is preferable to an unconvincing possibility.
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I'd love to claim that what I have done in my life is of my doing, but it's not of my doing at all. I've blown around in the wind like a mad thing, influenced by this and that - like a piece of paper: like the boy in that scene in 'American Beauty' watching a piece of paper blowing hither and thither.
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The man of power is ruined by power, the man of money by money, the submissive man by subservience, the pleasure seeker by pleasure.
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Taking the chance of making a complete fool of himself - and, sometimes, doing so - is the first demand that is made upon any real critic: he must stick his neck out just as the artist does, if he is to be of any real use to art.
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If I weren't a Jew (in the sense in which I use the word) then I wouldn't be an artist, or at least not the one I am now.
